Bible Verses of Pride

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

Zephaniah 3:3

This is the city of revelry that lived in safety. She said to herself, “I am the one! And there is none besides me.” What a ruin she has become, a lair for wild beasts! All who pass by her scoff and shake their fists.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is what they will get in return for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the Lord Almighty.

Zephaniah 2:10

“I have heard the insults of Moab and the taunts of the Ammonites, who insulted my people and made threats against their land.

Zephaniah 2:8

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, ‘The Lord will do nothing, either good or bad.`

Zephaniah 1:12

For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.

Titus 1:10

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.

Romans 3:27

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

Romans 1:30

You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed, those who stray from your commands.

Psalms 119:21

In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.

Psalms 106:16

Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate.

Psalms 101:5

They say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice.”

Psalms 94:7

They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting.

Psalms 94:4

No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt themselves.

Psalms 75:6

Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak so defiantly.`”

Psalms 75:5

To the arrogant I say, ‘Boast no more,` and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horns.

Psalms 75:4

Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Psalms 62:10

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

Psalms 62:9

For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,

Psalms 59:12

My adversaries pursue me all day long; in their pride many are attacking me.

Psalms 56:2

His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.

Psalms 55:21

“Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”

Psalms 52:7

Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?

Psalms 52:1

Though while they live they count themselves blessed— and people praise you when you prosper—

Psalms 49:18

Do not be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendor of their houses increases;

Psalms 49:16

those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?

Psalms 49:6

In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.

Psalms 36:2

Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.

Psalms 31:18

“If you play the fool and exalt yourself, or if you plan evil, clap your hand over your mouth!

Proverbs 30:32

those whose eyes are ever so haughty, whose glances are so disdainful;

Proverbs 30:13

those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;

Proverbs 30:12

Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.

Proverbs 29:23

The rich are wise in their own eyes; one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.

Proverbs 28:11

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.

Proverbs 27:21

Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 27:2

A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.

Proverbs 26:16

Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

Proverbs 26:12

Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given.

Proverbs 25:14

or the one who hears it may shame you and the charge against you will stand.

Proverbs 25:10

it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before his nobles. What you have seen with your eyes

Proverbs 25:7

Do not exalt yourself in the king`s presence, and do not claim a place among his great men;

Proverbs 25:6

for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

Proverbs 24:20

Do not fret because of evildoers or be envious of the wicked,

Proverbs 24:19

The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.

Proverbs 24:9

Whoever plots evil will be known as a schemer.

Proverbs 24:8

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about making trouble.

Proverbs 24:2

Do not envy the wicked, do not desire their company;

Proverbs 24:1

You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.

Proverbs 23:8

for he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Proverbs 23:7

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies;

Proverbs 23:6

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

Proverbs 23:5

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

Proverbs 23:3

and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.

Proverbs 23:2

When you sit to dine with a ruler, note well what is before you,

Proverbs 23:1

or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.

Proverbs 22:25

Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered,

Proverbs 22:24

The proud and arrogant person—“Mocker” is his name— behaves with insolent fury.

Proverbs 21:24

Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.

Proverbs 21:4

“It`s no good, it`s no good!” says the buyer— then goes off and boasts about the purchase.

Proverbs 20:14

Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 18:12

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

Proverbs 18:11

Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.

Proverbs 16:19

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18

The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 16:5

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow`s boundary stones in place.

Proverbs 15:25

Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.

Proverbs 13:10

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 11:2

Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.

Proverbs 9:7

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6:17

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?`

Obadiah 1:3

Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.

Numbers 16:50

But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.

Numbers 16:49

He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.

Numbers 16:48

So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.

Numbers 16:47

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the Lord; the plague has started.”

Numbers 16:46

“Get away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.” And they fell facedown.

Numbers 16:45

and the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 16:44

Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting,

Numbers 16:43

But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the tent of meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the Lord appeared.

Numbers 16:42

The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the Lord`s people,” they said.

Numbers 16:41

as the Lord directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the Lord, or he would become like Korah and his followers.

Numbers 16:40

So Eleazar the priest collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

Numbers 16:39

the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives. Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar, for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 16:38

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, to remove the censers from the charred remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy—

Numbers 16:37

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 16:36

And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Numbers 16:35

At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”

Numbers 16:34

They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.

Numbers 16:33

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.

Numbers 16:32

As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart

Numbers 16:31

But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”

Numbers 16:30

If these men die a natural death and suffer the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not sent me.

Numbers 16:29

Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:

Numbers 16:28

So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.

Numbers 16:27

He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

Numbers 16:26

Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

Numbers 16:25

“Say to the assembly, ‘Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.`”

Numbers 16:24

Then the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 16:23

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?”

Numbers 16:22